As Nazi troops prepare to enter Paris, a widowed schoolteacher and her two young children flee into a world of fairy-tale fantasy in director Andre Techine's superbly crafted war-time romance. June 1940: Odile (Emmuelle Beart), whose husband was killed on the eastern front, has fled Paris with her 13-year-old son, Philippe (Gregoire Leprince-Ringuet), and 7-year-old daughter, Cathy. While trying to maneuver their car along narrow rural roads clogged with other refugees, they're attacked by German aircraft. In a panic, Philippe runs blindly toward the nearby woods, but he's stopped by a handsome young stranger (Gaspard Ulliel) who returns the boy to his mother and adv...
Released:
2004
Rated:
NR
Length:
96 mins